Microsoft Azure Stack is an extension of Azure—bringing the agility and innovation of cloud computing to your on-premises environment and enabling the only hybrid cloud that allows you to build and deploy hybrid applications anywhere. We bring together the best of the edge and cloud to deliver Azure services anywhere in your environment.

Microsoft and Starburst are excited to announce that Starburst Presto has been added to the Azure HDInsight Application Platform. With the Azure HDInsight Application Platform, Microsoft has enabled a broad set of big data and advanced analytics solutions so customers can deploy them with a single click.

We are thrilled to announce that HDInsight 4.0 is now available in public preview. HDInsight 4.0 brings latest Apache Hadoop 3.0 innovations representing over 5 years of work from the open source community and our partner Hortonworks across key apache frameworks to solve ever-growing big data and advanced analytics challenges.

Fast Interactive BI, data security and end user adoption are three critical challenges for successful big data analytics implementations. Without right architecture and tools, many big data and analytics projects fail to catch on with common BI users and enterprise security architects.

Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud service for customers to do analytics at a massive scale using the most popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, LLAP, Presto, Spark, Kafka, and R...

I am excited to announce the general availability of HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics. With this release we bring number of new monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for your HDInsight environment. The new capabilities are aimed at helping our customers operate Big Data workloads at scale.